Steve Burke (Stephen B. Burke) Quotes
You don't get a chance to buy a company like NBCUniversal unless it's not doing well.
Steve Burke
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Yul Brynner
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
F. Sionil Jose
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
Oded Fehr
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
Felicity Jones
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
Damon Galgut
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
Randy Falco
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The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
Nate Silver
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
Lane Garrison
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
Rabih Alameddine
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Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.
Gary Cohn
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A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
Carly Fiorina
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
Candace Cameron Bure
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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
H. G. Wells
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Into it in the end, but she’d gotten the feeling he’d only relented to placate her, to ease some of the tension that’d crept into their marriage. And by then it was too late. A month later she was attending his funeral. Oddly, she didn’t feel the gut-wrenching loss that normally accompanied any thought of her late husband. Did that mean she was learning to live without him? Or was it the hope of having a child that buoyed her spirits? If she was pregnant, it would be more than a little ironic that it had happened with Maxim… “Get this over with,” she said aloud.
Brenda Novak
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
Xavier Becerra
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys
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Advanced ticket sales have been terrific but we've also found that on the day of the show twice as many people are just walking up (to buy tickets). Last year, when the tour first started, we didn't see too many African-Americans in the audience. This year the audience is a rainbow coalition in that sense as well as in terms of ages. The audience ages are all over the map. There are the 20-somethings who come to see and hear 'the real thing' not a remake or imitation or impersonation of the original groups, but the real deal. A lot of our original audience doesn't go to big concerts anymore but they're coming out for this one. It's one last party.
Robert Lamm
Chicago
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You don't get a chance to buy a company like NBCUniversal unless it's not doing well.
Steve Burke
